Full Freeview on the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmitter which serves 1,870,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sutton Coldfield transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 15km south-southwest (200°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 15km south-southwest (201°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
Are there any self-help relays?
Burton (shobnall) | Transposer | 1 km W Burton-on-Trent | 60 homes |
Coalville | Transposer | 18 km NW Leicester | 600 homes |
Solihull | Transposer | Land Rover building | 400 homes |
How will the Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 7 Mar 2018 | ||||
VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | W T | ||||
C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C33 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C36 | LOCAL2 | ||||||||
C39 | +ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C40 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C42 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C45 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C46 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C48 | _local | ||||||||
C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C51tv_off | LB | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 7 Sep 11 and 21 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 200kW | |
com7 | (-10.5dB) 89.2kW | |
com8 | (-10.7dB) 86kW | |
LB | (-20dB) 10kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 8kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sutton Coldfield transmitter area
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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Dan Walters11:54 PM
Malvern WR14, Sutton Coldfield Transmitter.
Did a retune on My Freeview HD tv at lunch time and got all 4 HD channels.
Got home from work tonight and no picture on HD channels but the EPG was there.
Did a retune and HD channels disappeared.
Still not back at 23.52 21.09.2011
Any ideas?
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Dan Walters: Have another go with My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and then see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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Thursday, 22 September 2011
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GT12:09 AM
Andy - thanks for the info. Ch62 from Winter Hill looks likely. Not a problem except on an old Philips DTR100 where it caused the number of channels to exceed its 90 store limit. Manually tuning only the SC channels solves the problem. cheers
(got it in the right thread this time).
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Dan Walters12:10 AM
Thanks,
Have now done both as suggested and still no HD channels. It doesn't add any channels when scanning Channel 40.
All others channels being received with no picture problems.
Thanks,
Dan
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Dan Walters12:21 AM
Have just tried a manual tune on channel 40 a 0 channels found!
Thanks,
Dan
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Matt2:23 AM
Here's one for you Brian.
I am recieving all muxes stably around 75-88% strength.
The HD Mux is the only mux I am getting BER on, the scale seems to hover around 50-55% on the BER.
Odd that its only this mux?
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tim brookes6:54 AM
help, after wed up grade(sutton) i factory re set television(samsung with freeview),all channels load and work until i switch television off, next time i switch on it says no signal? television is on own arial.
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tim brookes: I would give My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice a go, it usually fixes this kind of problem.
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Matt: You should probably check for Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice . How was your old BBC TWO analogue picture?
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Dan Walters: You need Freeview HD equipment - see What does "Full HD Ready" actually mean? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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